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Seeping within the flesh takes us into a horrific and suffocating audio environment, built around a mix of noise, sour ambience and audio fear. The more you play it the more disturbing it seems to get, your mind uncovering more disturbing audio debris, like grey limbs falling from overhead cardboards, or lifeless and eyeless heads bobbing to the top of stagnant water.
Death Unit brings together the considerable noise talents of Carlos Giffoni on electronics, Chris Corsano & Trevor Tremaine(Hair Police) on double drum attack and Brian Sullivan (Mouthus) on guitar. All brewed up together to make a fine take-no-prisoners, violent improvised psychedelic noise rock trip to hell.
This is a welcome reissue of one of the more accessible Nurse with wound Albums from 1999, which featured Current 93’s David Tibet vocal skills on a few tracks, And more rocked out, folk and rhythmic elements. It also tags on a rewarding second disk of different mixes etc, which continues the rewarding toe dippings into more electroinca beat work shown on last years Rat tape ones.
Since the release of the excellent double disk set Headless last year, it makes sense to reissue 6 comm. first album from 1987 Content with Blood, which has been out of print for sometime & illustrations Patrick Leagas first steps into muilt-genre thoughtful darkness.
Curveland is full of inviting lulling tones, micro rhythmic pulses and the odd more up beat lush pop moments, the tracks are often soothed by light airy and sensual Japanese/English female vocals. All weaved together to make the audio equivalent of slowly falling on to a warm feather mattress. Pure audio comfort, which you just want to seek deeply into.
Opus Paracelsum is Silence & strength second full length album which conjures up a mix of dark electronica, ambient ocultic drifts, and all manner of oddly layered, strange & eerier samples.
Tommorrow no one will be safe brings a track a piece from Norwegian noise collective Jazzkammer & Usa Electronic artist/ tape manipulator Howard Seltzer & then a one joint track. All of the tracks were recorded on the pairs tour in 2004, and offer up a creative and varied take on improvised music, noise and bizarre soundscapes.
Super Roots 5 is the next in the series reissue of the sporadicly released experimental ep’s from between 1993 & 1999. This original appeared in 1995 and like volume three consists of one long track, but instead of staying in one place, this wonder all over the place in it’s building might.
This rather nice Ltd hand painted envelope Packaging offers up a 3” cd a piece from two US Psychedelic synth noise projects; Andy Quitters Suburbia Melting and Daryl Groetsch’s Pulse Emitter. Each 3" cd offers up a track each.
Legenda guides the intrepid listener through nine psychedelic and bizarre sound worlds, Built manly around quirky and spacey analogue synthzizer and electronics. With support from acoustic and electric guitars, drums, & jazzy elements like Fender Rhodes and saxophone.
Its been over three years since Do make Say Thinks last album. Winter Hymn, Country Hymn, Secret Hymn was a pastoral, reflective work that seems to suggest a move away from the space jam sessions of previous albums. You, You’re A History in Rust continues in that direction and will ask new questions of the bands fan base.
Sharp Teeth stands as David Karsten Daniels first widely avaible album & his first for Fat cat records. Coming in a rather nicely macabre cartoon cover- It gives us twelve tracks of singer songwriter folk come indie tracks, that are sprinkled with a collection of other musically flakes, raising pop chorus, rocked out moments & some quirky instrumental touches
The Third hand finds RJD2 all but reinventing himself dropping most of his hip–hop origins and creating almost a Frankenstein monster of musically eras and genres, that’s not quite sure whether it wants to be a pop album or an experimental pick and mix sound pallet.
The black Lodge tries to create its own environment with which to tell a darkly surreal tale. With a mix of; shadowy ambience, soundtrack elements, along with all manner of found and environmental sound. Sadly for most of it’s playing time, it seems too unfocused, interesting and darkly charming structures appear, but are too quickly are wiped away by audio flotsam and jetsam.
Arrogance may not be the most deepest or most intelligent noise on the block, but it sure does pack a weight of power, with it’s muscular unfolding static tones. Akin to been slowly cooked from the inside of your head out, as the banks of noise throb and grow.
Chants from isolated ghost represents Roberto Opalio(one half of My cat is an Alien) first debut album from 2004, here reissued in a full pressing for the first time by Important. Though you can clearly hear the connection with his brothers work, this comes off a more ghostly and haunted feel than much of MCIAA work.
Mamono is a see-sewing caustic & kaleidoscopic journey into grinding electronics, twist and pull of wonky guitar bass muffle and fret noise, and precussive hiccup's. All toped with alarming vocal shouts, screams and oriental mayhem. KK Null and Keiji Haino have managed here to create a new form of noisy and bizarre chaos away from each others respective sound worlds.
Daydreaming feels like eclectronica/come Idm reimagined on to the piano, with folishers of cinematic atmospherics. Coming from the Miasmah label whose aim is to be at the forefront of the blurring classical and electronic music genres.
This ep of recordings from 2002 one and only John Peel session with Múm is issued for the first time here and is an important stepping stone between the cute electroinca of their first album, Yesterday Was Dramatic Today Is Ok and their emotional touched folktroncai/ indietrocia of the follow up Finally we are no One.
Maher Shalal Hash Baz makes glorious wrong sound music, and with L'Autre Cap he presents 27 tracks of barely holding together music- that dips into ill sound pop music, wonky jazz and big band on a sinking ship music, rock & blues that nearly rocks it self off the page.
Pope Joanna is the solo noise/voice/ sound sculpture project of one Clarisse Ducasse. And what a demented and harsh often chaotically beautifully second release Divinity corrupter is.
Evenomist finds David Reed (Luasa Raelon,etc) in a more deep droneing evil state of dark ambience, the creepy synth tones swelling and swirling together in Satisfying growing dread.
Hymyilevien laivojen satama appears on Circles Ektro label so you know you not in for an easy or simply one genre musically ride. I guess it’s a cross between prog, jazz rock, strange stage musically, 70’s theatrical rock, soundtrack elements. With side steps into coral music, avant classical, and strange theatrical monitions .It’s all toped with very distinctive vocals in Finnish mother tongue which again gives their sound an interesting & different feel.
Cho Oyu 8201m sees Geir Jensse, of electroinc ambient/ project Biosphere, Collecting together, manipulation and editing of sound recordings from his trip up Cho Oyu in Tibet- the sixth highest mountain in the world.